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More and more are concerned about the time they spend hooked on screens. Without going any further, a study revealed to us last week that even adolescents suffer from the number of hours they remain glued to their mobiles.
Hence, in recent times many technology firms have released different tools that will allow users to control the minutes – or hours – they spend on social networksand entertainment platforms.YouTube is one of them.
From now on, when you connect to YouTube, you will have the opportunity to rate how much time you spend enjoying the videos. Informing you. Or just wasting time. The new functionality that has been released is part of the project that Google has dubbed Digital Wellbeing. The information you will obtain will be the following: the total number of minutes or hours that you have accumulated during today and yesterday, but also the accumulated number of the last seven days and based on that information, an average of the time you spend every day in front of the application.
Do you want to know how much time you spend on YouTube?
It's actually very simple. You won't have to configure anything, because the statistics are automatic for ordinary YouTube users through mobile phones and the web. In any case, to access this information, do the following:
1. Access the YouTube application and go to the Settingssection. All you have to do is click on the round user icon, located at the top right of the page.
2. Once inside, click on the second option Display time. As soon as you open this option, you will have at your disposal all the statistics of the time you have spent on YouTube today, yesterday and in the last week. At the end you can also check what your daily average is.
The information Google provides you is based on your view history of all YouTube products. You should know, of course, that the time you spend listening to music on YouTube Music is not counted here. All in all, you will already have an idea of ​​how many minutes or hours of your day you dedicate to this platform.
And to cure our addiction to YouTube?
If after looking at your stats, you realize that you are indeed too hooked on YouTube, you may need to take action. The video platform already has everything calculated, in the sense that within this same settings section, there is a tool that will help you to disengage from YouTube of an effective way. Especially if you listen to him.
Just below the statistics, you will see a legend that tells you how they are obtained (we have already indicated that it is through the search history). Next, you will see that there is an option called: Tools to manage the time I spend on YouTube.
Here is a first option that will help you greatly to know when it is necessary to stop.It's about "Remember to take a break." If you activate this option, every time you exceed the time that you have marked yourself, you will receive a notification as a reminder.
What will appear to you is a nice little monkey having a cup of coffee, which will suggest a break. And that it will remind you how much time you have already spent on YouTube. You can accept and stop for a while or modify the time, if you think you need a little more videos. In this sense, you will put the restrictions on yourself, so it is convenient to be reasonable and responsible in equal parts.
